Hello and welcome to the 72nd episode of The Spark & The Art creativity podcast. Thank you for subscribing to our weekly podcast where we alternate between interviews with creative folks from all different career levels and insight and inspiration episodes. All with the intention you’ll get what you need to get your creative projects started and, more importantly, finished.

I’m your host Tucker and this week is an interview with Richard Sirgiovanni. Richard has been a musician for most of his life, spending his youth in the New York music scene with the likes of Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. (He even tells some stories of his time at the famous music club CBGB). We also talk about his time in art college, why he moved from music into advertising and marketing and how that all led to his newest venture: a musical cartoon show about an enchanted rock band called The Grimps.

During the chat, he mentions that he shared a gig with Madonna and I asked why he thinks some people can go from sharing the same stage at the same gig to becoming Madonna and other bands move on to other careers. His answer was basically about the people you surround yourself with but I’ll let him tell the story, ‘cause it sounds better when he talks about it.

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Thanks for listening (and don’t forget to keep listening after the doon doons to hear We Are The Grimps) and remember: you won’t get the art without the work and you won’t do the work without the spark.